Louis zwiesler



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS ZVVIESLER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH MENOLEN, OF SAME PLACE.

WEIGHING AND MEASURING SCOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,648, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed February 13, 1889. Serial no. 299,716. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern: ward yielding of the same under the pressure Be it known that I, LOUIs ZWIEsLER, of of its contents, the weight thereof thus being Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have determined with the aid of a pointer or index invented certain new and useful Improve- D, projecting from the bar through a slot (1 5 ments in Measuring and Weighing Scoops, of in the handle, and a scale or graduations c 55 which the following is a full, clear, and exact marked upon the latter at the sides of said description, reference being had to the acslot. A thumb piece or rest D projects from companyin g drawings forming a part thereof. the pointer or index D, whereby the index or This invention is directed to certain impointercanbepressedbodilyagainst the outer ro provements in scoops, and more especially or upper edge of the slot (Z, and thus elfect 6o measuring-scoops, being adapted to not only the holding of the scoop-bowl firmly in posiserve as a means to conveniently take up or tion against being moved inward while scoophandle certain substancesas, for instance, ing or taking up the substance preliminary to flour, sugar, coffee, grain, &c.but also to efthe measurement or weighing of the same. A

feet the measurement of the contents of the shield orplateealsoprojects from saidindexor 65 scoop, as also to indicate the weight of said pointer, but downwardly, obscuring from View contents; and to these ends the nature of the through the slot d the spring and rod within invention consists in the novel combination the handle. A sleeve 71 also projects from and arrangement of parts hereinafter set the inner end of the scoop-bowl A, and conforth, and pointed out in the claim. tains the bar O,fitting at its free end around 70 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevathe inner end of the handle B, also serving as tion of my improved scoop, and Fig. 2 is a a guide to steady the inward movement and partly side elevation and partly sectional to aid in properly holding the scoop-bowl in view of the same. position.

In the embodiment of my invention I em- I do not broadly claim a scoop-bowl having 5 ploya scoop-bowl A, preferably cylindrical in a cushioned or spring connection with its cross-section, the greater portion of its length handle and a pointer or index registering being tapered at its outer end to a point, as with graduations upon the handle, as I am shown, to aid in introducing the same into aware that such is not new; but,

the substance it is desired to take up. This Having thus fully described my invention, bowl is formed or provided at the required whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by intervals with beads b b, to divide up its cham- Letters Patent, isbers, so as to indicate pints, quarts, &c., for In a weighingscoop, the combination of a the measurement of the contents of the scoop, bowl, a spring-encircled rod having its upper 3 5 as may be necessary. The scoop-bowl A has end connected to said bowl, thehollow handle applied to its preferably round or semi-cylinhaving a slot in one side, a partition or diadric bottom upon the outside the reetanguphragm located in the handle, a nut fitted lar bar O, the latter having a spider-like arupon the inner end of said. rod in contact with rangement of arms a a, embracing and riveted said partition or diaphragm, a series of grad- 0 at a to the said end portion of the scoop-bowl. nations formed upon said handle at the sides 9 The bar O has screwed to or formed with ita of said slot, and the combined index and rod 0, which,together with the inner end of thumb-piece D, projecting through said slot the bar O, enters and is inclosed by the 1101- in the handle, substantially as and for the low handle B. The red C has applied to its purpose specified.

45 extreme inner screw-threaded end, upon the Intest-imonywhereof Iaffix my signature in inner side of a partition or diaphragm F, a presence of two witnesses.

nut g, while encircling said rod is a spring E, LOUIS ZIVIESLER. bearing'against the bar O and the partition Witnesses: or diaphragm F. This cushions the scoop- F. G. FISCHER,

5o bowl in the handle B and permits of the in- A. A. HIGDON. 

